Life Lessons | Laura Vassar: Brock Collection Co-Founder

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Clique Media, Female Founder, Entrepreneurship, Career Change, Career Pivot, Fashion & Beauty, Hillary Kerr, Personal Journals, Who What Wear, Clique, Career, Arts, Business, Careers, Second Life, Career Advice, Self-made, Entrepreneur, Mydomaine, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Laura Vassar has spent most of her life crafting beautiful ready-to-wear, a passion that began in high school when she learned to sew and designed her own prom dress. She met her future husband (and business partner) Kristopher Brock while studying at Parsons in New York City, and the rest is history: Their brand Brock Collection is now stocked at fine department stores and on big-time sites like Net-a-Porter and Moda Operandi. On this week’s episode of Life Lessons, she’s offering up advice for aspiring designers and explaining what it’s really like to work in fashion.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Hillary Kerr and this is Life Lessons, a podcast spotlighting women who
0:12.1	have incredible careers within a single field or industry.
0:16.8	We talk about everything from how they got their start to the best things they've learned
0:20.8	along the way.
0:21.8	Today, I am so excited to have Laura Vassar, the co-founder and designer of the incredible
0:28.0	brand Brock Collection in the studio with me.
0:31.6	Brock Collection is truly beloved by the fashion community and I personally have been tracking
0:36.4	Laura's work since she co-founded the company in 2014.
0:41.0	Of course, I'm not the only one who's been watching.
0:43.8	Brock Collection was part of the 2016 CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund process and actually won the
0:49.7	competition that year, only two years after launching, which is truly a huge deal.
0:56.0	The brand is now available in over 60 stores around the world with a plan for doubling
1:00.6	the number of doors in the next two years.
1:03.6	And personally, based upon the strength of what I've seen thus far, I'm confident that
1:07.7	Laura and the team can do just that.
1:10.7	With no further ado, it's designer Laura Vassar of Brock Collection, now on Life Lessons.
1:19.4	So Laura, on this podcast we like to start at the beginning, so what did you study in
1:24.0	school and what did you think you were going to be when you grew up?
1:28.2	So in high school, actually, I started to make clothes.
1:32.8	And really?
1:33.8	Yeah, I would be with my nanny and the woman who's been with us for ages.
1:38.5	Maria, we would be making clothes and I didn't know what in what capacity or what I really
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